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摘要

T-Mobile US submitted to the FCC a report written by American University Washington Collegenof Law professor Jonathan Baker that found reasonable aggregation limits in auctions would foster mobilencompetition. Baker’s paper also said two papers recently submitted by AT&T that argued against aggregationnlimits were flawed (http://bit.ly/13UKK5Y). The AT&T submission “inappropriately focuses onnthe possibility that spectrum aggregation limits could hinder large incumbents’ abilities to realize productionnefficiencies rather than on the dangers that spectrum aggregation limits address: that the largest twonincumbent firms could foreclose rivals from access to spectrum, and thereby relax the existing competitivenconstraint those rivals impose on the largest two firms, resulting potentially in higher prices, decreasedninvestment and innovation, and lower service quality,” T-Mobile counsel Howard Symons said. ThenAT&T papers’ claim that the use of spectrum aggregation limits for auctions and the use of case-by-case reviews of secondary transactions could create arbitrage “are wrong and in any case will not likely occur,”nSymons said (http://bit.ly/1cDQPM1).